Improvement in horse-powers



No. 148,377. I

-S. H. MODE. Horse-Powers.

Patented March 10. 1874.

girl/1% UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL H. MOOR, OF SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,377, dated March10, 1874; application filed December 1, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. Moon, of Springfield, in the county ofGreene and State of Missouri, have invented a new and ImprovedHorse-Power, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a contrivance of multiplying gears, by which itis designed to convert some of the force expended on the bearings intoeffective force, so as to economize power.

Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional elevation of my improved machine,taken on the line :vw of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is a tread-wheel, for applying the power by a horse or other animalwalking on it, or by animals hitched to it and walking around themachine. When used as a tread-wheel it may either be horizontal, asshown in the drawing, or inclined, as such wheels sometimes are. It isattached to the vertical shaft B, and turns it. This shaft has a socketin the lower end, and rests on the upper portion.

of another shaft, 0, as shown in dotted lines at D. It carries thebevel-wheel E at its lower end, which turns four radial shafts, F, whichare journaled at their inner ends in a loose collar, G, on shaft B, andhave a truck-wheel, H, at the outer ends, which rolls around on acircular track, I, on a disk or frame, K, supported on the collar J ofshaft 0, which passes through it. These radial shafts are loaded with aheavy metal ring, M, to create friction of the wheels H on the track I,and cause said wheels to turn disk K. The motion is transmitted from thedisk by a cog-rim, N, on the under side, which turns the wheel 0 on thetransmitting-shaft P. The ring M is connected, by an arm, Q, with theshaft 0, and the latter has a wheel, R, gearing with the pinion S onshaft P, so arranged that, in case the wheels H should be liable torollaround on track I without imparting motion to it, the

ring would maintain the motion of the shaft I P; but as said shaft isgeared with the disk, it cannot turn without the disk turns; there fore,the motion is equally divided between the disk and the ring, and bothunite their forces on the transmitting shaft, but on opposite sides ofit, each having the other for its hearing or resistance to itsoounterforce, so that a considerable measure of force is utilized,which, in ordinary arrangements, is lost on the bearings. Moreover, thiscounterforce acts 011 the disk near the periphery and on the wheels H,so that its efi'ect on the transmitting-shaft is largely increased bythe leverage thus obtained. Q

' Having thus described my, invention, I claim as new and desire to"secure by Letters lat ent- The combination of shaft B, radial shafts 1*,wheels H, disk K, ring M, shaft 0, and transmitting-shaft P, the diskand the shaft 0 being geared to the transmitting-shaft, and the ring Mconnected to the shaft 0, all substantially as specified.

. SAMUEL H. MOOR.

Witnesses:

JAMES HEGARTY, P, H. GILLESPIE.

